Oscar List and My Film Experience

• 1928 - Wings
  
• 1929 - Broadway Melody
  
• 1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front
  
• 1931 - Cimarron
  
• 1932 - Grand Hotel
  
• 1933 - Cavalcade
  
• 1934 - It Happened One Night
  
• 1935 - Mutiny on the Bounty
  
• 1936 - The Great Ziegfeld *
  
• 1937 - The Life of Emile Zola
  
• 1938 - You Can't Take It With You
  
• 1939 - Gone With the Wind *
  
• 1940 - Rebecca
  
• 1941 - How Green was My Valley
  
• 1942 - Mrs. Miniver
  
• 1943 - Casablanca *
  
• 1944 - Going My Way
  
• 1945 - The Lost Weekend
  
• 1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives *
  
• 1947 - Gentlemen's Agreement
  
• 1948 - Hamlet
  
• 1949 - All the King's Men
  
• 1950 - All About Eve *
  
• 1951 - An American in Paris
  
• 1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth *
  
• 1953 - From Here to Eternity
  
• 1954 - On the Waterfront *
  
• 1955 - Marty *
  
• 1956 - Around the World in 80 Days *
  
• 1957 - The Bridge Over the River Kwai *
  
• 1958 - Gigi
  
• 1959 - Ben-Hur *
  
• 1960 - The Apartment
  
• 1961 - West Side Story *
  
• 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
  
• 1963 - Tom Jones
  
• 1964 - My Fair Lady *
  
• 1965 - The Sound of Music *
  
• 1966 - A Man For All Seasons
  
• 1967 - In the Heat of the Night
  
• 1968 - Oliver *
  
• 1969 - Midnight Cowboy *
  
• 1970 - Patton *
  
• 1971 - The French Connection *
  
• 1972 - The Godfather *
  
• 1973 - The Sting *
  
• 1974 - The Godfather Part II *
  
• 1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest *
  
• 1976 - Rocky *
  
• 1977 - Annie Hall *
  
• 1978 - The Deer Hunter *
  
• 1979 - Kramer Vs. Kramer *
  
• 1980 - Ordinary People *
  
• 1981 - Chariots of Fire *
  
• 1982 - Gandhi *
  
• 1983 - Terms of Endearment *
  
• 1984 - Amadeus *
  
• 1985 - Out of Africa *(unfortunately!)
  
• 1986 - Platoon *
  
• 1987 - The Last Emperor *
  
• 1988 - Rain Man *
  
• 1989 - Driving Miss Daisy *
  
• 1990 - Dances With Wolves *
  
• 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs *
  
• 1992 - Unforgiven *
  
• 1993 - Schindler's List *
  
• 1994 - Forrest Gump *
  

  Wow! I hadn't realized that I'd seen every winner since 1968 in the theater (not on video). That's 27 years in a row of great movie choices. 40 out of 67. Not bad.
  

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  My Film Experience

  I was in the film "Hair"... sort of. I was part of the big crowd scenes in central park in New York City. I spent the whole day either dancing with Treat Williams and Nell Carter or getting kicked out and sneaking back in again (because I didn't have a Screen Actors Guild card).

  I spent so much time dancing right next to the leads that I figured I was GUARANTEED screen time. Many months later the film was released and I went to see it with my family. I was full of excitement about being seen on the big screen. We had to give the film a "Thumbs Down" review because they cut almost all of me out of it. I was able to spot my elbow in one scene and the top of my hair in another (I had a big afro at the time).

  The editor must have sat there and said "Oh shit, there's that annoying guy again, cut!" No aesthetic sense there!

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  Factoid: I heard that the OSCAR was named because a secretary, upon seeing the statuette remarked "It looks like my uncle Oscar!". Truth or Fiction...?

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